North Yorkshire Record Office
holds Pateley Bridge Circuit records which cover the chapels from Brown Bank to
West End. These include baptism records from
1825 to 1961. All the chapels are
together in each volume but the place of residence is shown.

Norwood/Havarrah Park

Known as Brown Bank, this
chapel was situated off Watson’s Lane, now a private house. Northallerton record office have a copy of
the Sunday School register 1941-1979. Several names are shown on the Wesleyan
Roll: Darnbrook,
Grange, McKenzie, Gill, Hobson, Hutton

Fewston

The chapel opened
as early as 1763 and was enlarged in 1894 when there were 26 members. It closed in 1959, also now a private
house. Marriage records 1908-1943 at are
held at Northallerton. At NYRO I came
across a list of seat rents for 1910 which mentions the following names:

The chapel,
situated on a lane just to the east of Hardisty Hill opened in 1838 and closed
in 1994.

Hardisty Hill Chapel

There was also a Reading Room until relatively recently at the foot of
Hardisty Hill. The record office holds a
copy of the Sunday School register, attendances shown below:

John W Andrew 1896 to 1898 Dewhirst Beecroft 1909 to 1911

William Beecroft 1895 to 1897 & 1909 to 1911 James E Gill 1892

George Hardcastle 1892 to
1895 Charles Harrison 1897 to 1898

Richard Knowles 1910 to 1911 Andrew Maud 1893

Bradley Maud 1895 to 1898 Titus Maud 1894 to 1895

Ethel Maud 1897 to 1898 Lucy Maud 1895 to
1898

Emily Neal 1896 to 1898 Annie L Newall 1909

Annie M Watkinson 1894 to
1896 Richard Watkinson 1895 to 1896

Charles Watkinson 1895 to
1897

Five members of the Gill family contributed to the Wesleyan
Roll ( 20th Century Fund), Michael, John , Wilks, Sarah &
Esther.

West End

West End Chapel

Taken at the centenary celebration in 1936

An
article in the Wharfedale & Airedale Observer 12th May 1962
regarding the above chapel, just before
closure, states it opened in 1836 and was built on land previously owned by
John Hall of Thruscross. The chapel was
located at the top of Clogger Lane.
Some of the families involved in the
past are mentioned: Newbould, Wigglesworth, Gill, Bulmer, Metcalf &
Verity. It also states that the tea at
the Centenary was served by Mrs F Nelson, Mrs Wood, Mrs Newbould, Mrs J Verity,
Mrs V Verity, Mrs Smith, Mrs G Marshall, Miss S Peel, Miss S Walker.

There
was also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
From documents of a land sale held by Mikki French, one of her
ancestors, Godfrey Horsman of West End, sold
to Joshua Hardisty (cordwainer), Joseph Dinsdale (linen weaver), James Fryer
(flaxdresser), Thomas Shepherd (weaver) all of Thruscross, Joseph Stott
(farmer), Francis Sutcliffe (miller), both of Stonebeckdown & John Watson
(wheelwright) of Stonebeckup in 1929 a
plot of land for the purpose of building a Primitive Methodist Chapel. The document states the plot of land was
close to Holmefield and Brecks
Lane. This
site was, I believe just north of the present Reservoir Road. The building was sold in 1902, so I assume
the two congregations came together. See
the first paragraph regarding baptism records.

Just two names
appear on the Wesleyan Roll: Enoch Garth
& John Verity.

In an account
book dated 1811 there is a list of where collections were received. At this early date many of the chapels were
not in existence and these may have been house meetings. Amongst the places mentioned, Bramley Head and
Bramelane are shown. The Wesleyan Chapel
at West End (opened 1836) was close to Bramley
Head and Bramelane is near to Brown Bank.
.

A list of Circuit
members dated 1838 for each chapel within the Pateley Bridge Circuit:

Blubberhouses

Isabella

Cadman

Brown
Bank

John

Renton

Blubberhouses

James

Child

Brown
Bank

Dinah

Renton

Blubberhouses

Margaret

Child

Brown
Bank

Thomas

Robinson

Blubberhouses

Thomas

Elliot

Brown
Bank

Thomas

Simpson

Blubberhouses

Ann

Elliot

Brown
Bank

Mary

Stockdale

Blubberhouses

Matilda

Elliot

Brown
Bank

Grace

Stubbs

Blubberhouses

Hannah

Keswick

Brown
Bank

Sarah

Thackrey

Blubberhouses

Ellen

Lawyer

Brown
Bank

Joseph

Todd

Blubberhouses

Robert

Metcalfe

Brown
Bank

Eliza

Todd

Blubberhouses

John

Newell

Brown
Bank

Hannah

Turner

Blubberhouses

Susannah

Newell

Brown
Bank

William

Turner

Blubberhouses

Margaret

Sunter

Brown
Bank

Elizabeth

Whitaker
(child)

Blubberhouses

Ellen

Terry

Brown
Bank

Jonathan

Whitaker
|(child)

Blubberhouses

John

Thackray

Brown
Bank

Hannah

Wilson

Blubberhouses

Mary

Thackray

Brown
Bank

Robert

Wilson

Blubberhouses

Mary

Webb

Brown
Bank

Benjamin

Wilson

Blubberhouses

Hannah

Whitehead

Fewston

Henry

Bramley

Blubberhouses

Emma

Yates

Fewston

Mary

Bramley

Brown
Bank

Joseph

Ainsworth

Fewston

Ann

Bramley

Brown
Bank

Jonathan

Andrews
(child)

Fewston

Mary

Bramley

Brown
Bank

Hannah

Bolton

Fewston

Mary

Buck

Brown
Bank

Hannah

Bolton

Fewston

Elizabeth

Buck

Brown
Bank

Robert

Bramley

Fewston

Sarah

Buck

Brown
Bank

Hannah

Bramley

Fewston

Susannah

Buck

Brown
Bank

John

Bramley

Fewston

Hannah

Demaine

Brown
Bank

William

Broadbelt

Fewston

Mark

Demaine

Brown
Bank

Sarah

Broadbelt

Fewston

Matthew

Demaine

Brown
Bank

Mary

Darnbrook

Fewston

Jane

Dickinson

Brown
Bank

Ann

Darnbrook

Fewston

Elizabeth

Dunwell

Brown
Bank

Mary

Dibb

Fewston

Thomas

Elison

Brown
Bank

Thomas

Driver

Fewston

Mary

Elison

Brown
Bank

Mary

Driver

Fewston

George

Hardy

Brown
Bank

Ann

Emsley

Fewston

Henry

Jackson

Brown
Bank

Charles

Emsley

Fewston

Hannah

Morris

Brown
Bank

Mary
Ann

Emsley

Fewston

Thomas

Peel

Brown
Bank

Hannah

Ferndale

Fewston

Susannah

Peel

Brown
Bank

Joseph

Grange

Fewston

Samuel

Brown
Bank

William

Green

Fewston

Elizabeth

Reed

Brown
Bank

Daniel

Green

Fewston

Joseph

Settle

Brown
Bank

Samuel

Hudson

West End

Elizabeth

Abbot

Brown
Bank

Mary

Hudson

West End

Walter

Buckle

Brown
Bank

Joseph

Irish

West End

Sarah

Buckle

Brown
Bank

Benjamin

Jackson

West End

Ellen

Garrs

Brown
Bank

Joseph

Jackson

West End

Anthony

Garth

Brown
Bank

Elizabeth

Jackson

West End

Stephen

Hardisty

Brown
Bank

Henry

Jackson

West End

Sarah

Holmes

Brown
Bank

Mary

Jackson

West End

Ellen

Holmes

Brown
Bank

William

Margerison

West End

Elizabeth

Imeson

Brown
Bank

Thomas

Moon

West End

Betty

Imeson

Brown
Bank

William

Moon

West End

Ann

Myers

Brown
Bank

Jane

Peel

West End

Martha

Newbould

Brown
Bank

Robert

Peel

West End

Emmanuel

Shepherd

Brown
Bank

Joseph

Rawson

West End

Elizabeth

Waite

Brown
Bank

Susannah

Rawson

West End

Amelia

Wilkinson

Brown
Bank

Susannah

Rawson

I assume those
headed under “Blubberhouses” refers to Hardisty Hill Chapel.

At the archives
there is also a Society Roll Book dated 1931.
The circuit members list, plus the roll book and the baptisms would make
a useful publication – a willing transcriber needed!